Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween! HOORAY! I LOVE Halloween! Wil and I had tons of fun handing out candy to the trick or treaters that came to our door. I think we had about 40 kids. We were expecting more, but 40's a pretty good number.

Advertising Agencies love Halloween. Which means all of the creative people working at advertising agencies compete to see who can come up with the best costume - I think there were maybe two people (maybe) that didn't dress up! The PR team won for best group costume - alright, so we were the only group costume, but we're still the winners! This year our team went as Colorado City polygamists. It probably wasn't my favorite idea ever, but what can you do. I mean literally, what else can you do with a team of seven women and one male intern?

Aren't we a lovely family? Warren Jeffs is on the left, they let him out of jail long enough to attend the party. I'm the second one in the back row. I'm holding two babies, but you can't really see them in this picture.

My co-worker Alana is getting married tomorrow, so she wasn't at the Halloween party today. She still wanted to participate, so she made a missing persons sign with her photo on it - she's the one that got away. We made copies and passed out the missing persons sign to everyone at the party.

It was great fun! The only thing that would have made the party better was if they had told us to go home when it was over (at 2 p.m.). No dice, we had to go back to work.

Making My Friends Pets Famous

Not only do I enjoy making my friends famous, I also enjoy making my friends and family's pets famous. I just finished working on a project for Wal-Mart promoting its pet costumes for Halloween. It ended up being SO much fun! I don't think it's humanly possible to put a costume on a dog and take its picture without laughing, smiling, giggling and leaving happier than you arrived!

This is my Aunt & Uncle's dog Suzy! She was SO excited to be in the house! They had to close the curtains because she kept strutting by the door making the other dogs jealous. She looks like she's posing!

At first she fought the devil headband, but after a while, she gave up and wore it like she enjoyed it.
This is my Grandma's dog Oscar! I think the pumpkin costume is slimming on him. Never mind that he had to suck in his gut to get it on. He tried on a bee costume too, but it wasn't nearly as cute as this one.

You can more of these cute photos here. Look for the ones that say Wal-Mart somewhere in the caption and you'll know I took them.

Making My Friends Famous

One of my favorite parts of my job is seeing people I know on TV or in the paper, especially when I can look at it and say "I did that, I made my friend famous." OK, so maybe one article or one TV story won't make anyone famous, but it's close enough!

This is a video of Alison Bosen (one of my favorite friends) on Channel 3. When we started working with Channel 3 on this story about holiday shopping at Wal-Mart, I knew she would be perfect. She did a FABULOUS job! Everyone at work was EXTREMELY impressed by how well spoken and articulate she was.

Enjoy!

Graffitti Ads

I was reading my e-mail this evening and noticed a funny trend. One of my e-mails happened to be someone commenting on my blog, so the subject line says Gonzalez Graffitti and then the name of the post to which the person is responding. Since I have G-Mail, ads pop up on the side of the page. Generally the ads pull from the content of your e-mail. When I talk to a friend that is getting married, I get ads about wedding dresses and flowers and cakes, etc. When someone posts a comment on my blog, the ads say in order: Servpro Graffitti Cleanup, Graffitti Remover Magic, Street Art Locator (I think this one is my personal favorite), and Citrus Graffitti Remover.

I feel like we should conduct a G-Mail ad experiment. The person to send me the e-mail that generates the funniest ad wins. What do you win? The knowledge that you are the most clever person I know, and if you live close enough maybe a Halloween treat.

Trunk-or-Treat

Ta-da...a photo! HOORAY! This is Wil and I at our ward's trunk-or-treat. It was tons of fun! Wil was a road and I was a fifties girl.


I do have to confess, however, that we did not take this photo. We took our camera and I took a photo of Wil's mom. Then I gave the camera to Wil because I'm on the activities committee and went to help clean up. Wil decided to help out too, so he gave the camera to one of his family members. They left, with our camera and then I said, we need a picture, where's the camera...Luckily, Wendy Howe took this picture of us and posted it to her blog. Thanks Wendy!

Cameras & Photos - Two Different Things

Good Morning!

Wil and I went to a concert at Hayden Ferry Lakeside on the banks of Tempe Town Lake last night. Hayden Ferry Lakeside is one of my clients, so we were there to be supportive. It was actually a lot of fun, and they had a pretty good turn out, too.

Afterward we went to Monti's. I have to admit, that is the first time I've ever done anything on Mill Ave. besides drive by it. It was a great restaraunt, we both enjoyed it immensely. If you ever go, I recommend the broiled salmon. Overall, it was a great night! Wil even remembered to bring the camera - unfortunately, we still forgot to take pictures.

We're going to Wil's work picnic and to the trick-or-trunk at church tonight, and I promise to take at least one picture - I promise! We're not sure what we will dress up as yet, so if anyone has any ideas for an easy, last minute costume we are all ears!

Happy Weekend!

Cake Wrecks

Yesterday, my grandma and I signed up to take a cake decorating class at Jo-Ann's. I'm SO excited! We've been trying to sign up for the past two months, but we barely missed the sign up time both times. We almost missed it again - they had to make an exception so both of us could sign up because there was only one spot left.

Coming soon (try to control your excitement!) will be photos of my attempts to make beautiful cakes. Until then you should go to Cake Wrecks - it's one of my favorite blogs and always has hysterical and horrible cakes. You'll just have to enjoy other people's cake wrecks, at least until I can post my own.